Cabineted powder dispenser



Sept. 29, 1959 M. H. sEssloNs CABINETED POWDER DISPENSER Filed July 19, 1956 Mqec' Hf Sess/ONS,

IN V EN TOR.

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Marc H. Sessions, Los AngelesfCalrf., assgnor to United 'f V States Borax & ChemicaLCorporation, Los Angeles,

Calif., a corporation of Nevada Application July 19, 1956, Serial No. 598,803

2 Claims. (Cl. 312-242) This invention has to do with powder dispensers, such as are used to dispense powdered soap. The general object of the invention is to provide a wall cabinet for holding such a powder dispenser in concealment. Further objects are to provide a cabinet structure in which the dispenser is recessed behind a wall surface, and to provide a structure that is convenient in use and which cannot be tampered with or disordered.

The invention will be best understood from the following description of a present preferred and illustrative embodiment; reference for that purpose being had to the accompanying drawings in which:

Fig. 1 is a perspective showing the cabineted dispenser mounted in a wall;

Fig. 2 is a vertical section on line 2-2 of Fig. l; and

Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

The body of the cabinet, generally rectangular in form, has upper and lower walls and 12, side walls 14, and rear wall 16. A flange 18 engages the surface of wall 20 in which the cabinet is recessed, the cabinet being rigidly held in place in the wall by any suitable means such as screws 22.

The cabinet body is open at the front, except for a lower front wall 60, and the upper part of the opening is provided with a door 24, hinged along one vertical edge to the front edge of a side wall 14, as shown at 26. The other, swinging, edge of the door is provided with a lock such as illustrated at 28, preferably operated by a key such as shown at 30. Key operation of the lock throws a locking arm 32 into and out of alnement with a keeper 34 mounted on a side wall 14, thereby locking the door closed or freeing it to be opened.

A powder dispenser, generally designated 32, is mounted on the inside face of the door.

The general and preferred characteristics of the dispenser are that it delivers powder from the lower end of its container-body and that it is operated by a handle projecting below the body. These characteristics make it possible to mount the dispenser body in a position concealed behind the door with only the depending handle showing. The particular dispenser here shown is of the general type shown for instance in the Dudley Patent N0. 2,357,387 dated September 5, 1944. Its containerbody 34 is here preferably rectangular or square in horizontal cross-section, and the front wall of the body may be formed by the panel 36 of door 24, side walls 34a of the container body being welded as indicated at 35 to panel 36. That weld mounts the container-body rigidly on the back of the door.

The dispenser of the type here illustrated is operated by inserting the hand under depending handle 40, moving it up and allowing it to drop; delivery being as indicated at 42 into the palm of the operating hand. The open space under door 24 over front wall 60 is made amply large for hand insertion. Reference may be had to the Dudley patent for details of structure and operation of the dispenser here shown. However, it will be understood that the present invention is not limited to that dist 4vA certain small part of the powder delivery commonly drops past the operating hand, or the operator may drop part or all of what has been delivered into his hand; With such a dispenser mounted inthepreviously A-usual position, over a wash bowl, the bowl catches the waste.; Here, however, most or all Vof, suchfwastefallsinthe cabinet, and removable means are provided for catching it.

As here illustratively shown, that means is composed of an apron 50 comprising a back-and-bottom member which has a back, upwardly extending part 52, and a concavely curved bottom part 54. The whole member is preferably shaped as shown in Fig. 2; and the upwardly extending forward part of the bottom has an outwardly projecting ange 56 that rests on the flanged upper edge 58 of the lower front Wall 60 of the cabinet body. The upper end 52a of apron part 52 lies immediately behind the lower reduced portion 32a of dispenser body 32 and immediately under the larger part of body 32. The apron part 52 lies against back wall 16 of the cabinet, and depending handle 40, which can be moved only up and down, and a short distance (as indicated), is always positioned in front of apron part 52. It is therefore diliicult, if not impossible, to remove the apron without unlocking the door and swinging it wide open. Tampering with the apron and its contents is thus effectively prevented.

Apron parts 52, 54 and 56 extend laterally between side walls 14 of the cabinet with their edges approaching those side walls closely. At its bottom portion the apron is provided with side walls 62 which, with the curved bottom 54, form a sort of open box to catch and hold the waste.

The cabineted dispenser is easily serviced. The door being unlocked and opened, the container-body 32 of the dispenser may be charged wtih powder through its open upper end. It is to be noted that, as the dispenser is normally locked behind the door, no locked cofver is necessary for its body to prevent pilfering or the accumulation of foreign matter.

With the cabinet open, apron 50 is then easily lifted out, dumped and cleaned. It is then easily replaced, and with the door then closed and locked the dispenser is ready for use and the whole arrangement protected against tampering.

I claim:

l. The combination of a cabinet having a walled body with back, side, top and bottom walls and a front wall extending up from the bottom wall and closing only a lower portion of the cabinet front, said cabinet body being otherwise open at its front and adapted to be recessed in a wall, a door hinged at one vertical edge to the front of a cabinet wall, said door closing the upper part of the open front of the cabinet body and leaving an unobstructed opening below its lower edge and the upper edge of the front wall for free insertion of a hand, means for locking the door closed, a powder dispenser having a container-body allxed to the rear face of the door and positioned substantially wholly above the lower edge of the door, said dispenser having a manual operating handle depending from its body to a point below the lower edge of the door and above the upper edge of the front wall in a position to be operated by a hand inserted into the cabinet under the door, and a catch apron having a back portion adapted to lie against the back wall of the cabinet body with its upper end behind the dispenser body and having a lower box-like portion resting on the cabinet body bottom behind the lower front wall, said apron being liftable and removable from the cabinet body when the cabinet door is open.

2. `The combination of a cabinet having a walled body with back, side, top and bottom walls and having a sub stantially open front and adapted to be recessed in a wall, a door hinged at one edge of the front of the cabinet, said door closing the upper part of the open front of the cabinet and leaving an unobstructed opening below its lower edge, a powder dispenser having a eontainer- 5 body affixed to the rear face of the door, and said dispenser having a handle manually operable rin a vertical direction, said handle depending downwardly from said containerlbody to-a point lower than the lower edge of said door and capable of being operated by'a hand in- 10 serted into the cabinet below the door.

UNITED STATES PATENTS Hall Dec. 5, 1905 Hoelzer Sept. 13, 1910 Meyer Apr. 14, 1931 Laystrom et al June 13, 1950 Carlson Feb. 27, 1951 Reynolds e.. Apr.` 28, 1953 FOREIGN PATENTS Great Britain 1879 

